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Definition of high-flown in English Turkish dictionary
- ağdalı
- kibirli
- (dil) tumturaklı
- kendini beğenmiş
- mağrur
- uçtu yüksek
- şatafatlı
- süslü
- kibirli
- tumturaklı
- highflown
- tumturaklı mağrur
- highflown
- kibirli
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Definition of high-flown in English English dictionary
- pretentiously eloquent; highly figurative
Red River Settlement is, to use a high-flown expression, an oasis in the desert, and may be likened to a spot upon the moon or a solitary ship upon the ocean. In plain English, it is an isolated settlement on the borders of one of the vast prairies of North America. — R.M. Ballantyne, Hudson Bay, 1850.
- lofty, extravagant, refined
It seems to me he makes troubles, by expecting every one else to be as quixotic as himself. He is not likely to find high-flown notions among ordinary business men! — Mrs George de Horne Vaizey, A Houseful of Girls, 1905.
- pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution
- disapproval High-flown language is very grand, formal, or literary. high-flown language sounds impressive but does not have much real meaning
- high-flown Hebrew
- high-level Hebrew, sophisticated words in Hebrew, elegant Hebrew rhetoric
- high-flown words
- eloquent words
- highflown
- {a} elevated proud, affected, nice
- highflown
- Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language
- highflown
- Elevated; proud
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high-flown
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bombastic, high-minded, elaborate, exaggerated, extravagant, grandiloquent, grandiose, inflated, showy, turgidPronunciation
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